** Murphy Oil Corporation based in El Dorado, Arkansas will host a conference call and webcast beginning at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, January 30, 2020 to discuss fourth quarter 2019 earnings and review year-end 2019 results. The Company plans to release its financial and operating results before the market opens that morning.
** A new law in St. Louis, Missouri, requires all new residential and commercial buildings to be “solar ready,” allowing panels to be easily installed.
** A deal to save the pension funds of retired U.S. coal miners will benefit about 8,000 retirees in Illinois.
** New Mexico’s ambitious law to shut down coal plants has consequences for workers that are likely not addressed.
** Questions are being raised about Tesla’s autopilot driving system in the wake of three crashes involving Teslas that killed three people.
** Montana’s Colstrip Units 1 and 2, one of the largest coal-fired power plants in the western U.S., will close by Jan. 5 or as soon as they run out of coal to burn.
